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Boulder's TeamSnap sees boosts in teams

User base includes immigrant soccer team in Israel

By Alicia Wallace Camera Business Writer

Posted:
05/02/2013 08:36:40 PM MDT

Updated:
05/02/2013 08:37:20 PM MDT

TeamSnap, a Boulder-based developer of an app to manage teams and groups, brought on 12,000 new teams during April, representing a quarter of a million new users, company officials told the Camera this week.

The April teams gain -- which was three times the number of new teams added in the same month last year -- came just weeks after TeamSnap landed $2.75 million for "turning up the volume" on its marketing and development efforts.

As of the end of April, more than 2 million people and 200,000 teams and organizations in 195 countries use TeamSnap's software.

"We've become a leader in the space," said Dave DuPont, TeamSnap's chief executive officer. "The good news is we emerged from the pack. The bad news is we have a target on our back.

" ... We've achieved a good level of success, and that's allowing us to accelerate."

TeamSnap's bread and butter are sports teams; however, the company has a user base that includes church groups, dragonboat racers, cheese rollers and the Olim Soccer League of Israel, an eight-team league comprised of immigrants and refugees.

"Anyone who is in Israel has the opportunity to play with us," David Bernstein, a spokesman for the league, said in an interview with the Daily Camera. "There are people who literally have nothing -- refugees living in very poor conditions who will be able to play with us. That's something very special."

Olim Soccer League has players ages 15 to 55 who hail from 18 countries, he said.

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"It's really more than just a league; it is a forum for international people to meet and benefit from being in regular contact with many other people," Bernstein said.

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